What do you think were the most important and under-reported stories of 2006?

The Straight Story

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:38 PM
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What do you think were the most important and under-reported stories of 2006?

The media has focused on everything from missing blondes to celebrity mishaps.

They have ignored real news or barely mentioned it.

What were the REAL stories of 2006 that should have gotten more attention?

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John Q. Citizen

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:42 PM
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1. US elections system broken! n/t

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Der Blaue Engel

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:42 PM
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2. Darfur, and the continuing outrage of Katrina

The loss of habeus corpus, of course. Good lord; too many to name.

But what's happening in Darfur and what's being ignored in New Orleans is an outrage. I mentioned to several close friends that I broke down crying every time I saw the commercial for savedarfur.org. Every last one of them said, "What the heck is "dar foor"?

:cry:

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Taxloss

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:43 PM
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3. Global warming.

Sure, it's received a lot of attention this year - but not nearly enough. It's the absolute #1 planetary story by several million miles, and the media should be screaming to end our fossil habit ASAP, but the "we're going to have to change things" penny hasn't come close to dropping yet.

This year, last year, and the year before that. And longer.

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Patsy Stone

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:43 PM
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4. The Libby trial n/t

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H2O Man

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:54 PM
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8. Right.

I would include the role of VP Dick Cheney. His notes on the Wilson op-ed were in the news briefly, but deserved far, far more attention.

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Patsy Stone

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Wed Dec-27-06 07:21 PM
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11. He is a slippery SOB, isn't he?

Merry Happy to you, H2O Man!

I'm hoping we'll hear a lot more about all of it in a few weeks.

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H2O Man

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Wed Dec-27-06 07:44 PM
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13. I believe we will.

January-February should be most interesting months.

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eleny

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:45 PM
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5. The loss of each and every soldier

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blm

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:46 PM
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6. That DC lawmakers KNEW Iraq was in Civil War early this year but stayed silent

about it, and instead many of those same lawmakers, both GOP and Dem, treated Murtha, Kerry and Feingold as if they were lunatics.

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LWolf

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:52 PM
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7. I don't know all the under-reported stories.

I'm sure there are way too many I haven't heard enough about to be a good judge of what might constitute "most important."

From where I live, the most underreported domestic story in the last several years has been the destruction of public education under NCLB. It's up for renewal in '07. Will we hear more reality, and less grandstanding from the halls of government?

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RUMMYisFROSTED

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:55 PM
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9. Media manipulation.

20 years running.

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Selatius

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Wed Dec-27-06 06:57 PM
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10. The fucking war.

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IDemo

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Wed Dec-27-06 07:43 PM
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12. The 4 largest supergiant oil fields are starting to sputter

Edited on Wed Dec-27-06 07:51 PM by IDemo

Ghawar in Saudi Arabia, Cantarell (Mexico), Burgan (Kuwait), and Daqing (China).

- edit to add: this is probably a good thing if you're a polar bear, not so good if you've been eying that new Ford Excessive...

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Disturbed

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Wed Dec-27-06 07:50 PM
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14. Under Reported:

Downing Street Memos.

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blues90

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Wed Dec-27-06 08:32 PM
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15. Just about everything

Unless you use the internet or listen to liberal radio and read some of the few papers and dig a bit .

Most of all the NOLA issues and the situation in the middle east.

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